# Date: 1905-09

ON THE THEME "PLEKHANOV AND THE NEW ISKRA"

7. Two different positions in Engels. Plekhanov's influence.
His shift from No. 97 of Iskra.*
Cf. the resolution of the New Iskra supporters and the 3rd Congress.

8. 1891. Omissions. 3

9. Connection of the question with the insurrection (cf.* 1873)

10. The situation of 1848 and 1894 in Europe respectively** 1905 in Russia

11. The leader has perished.

12. Pedantry. Ascent to a higher stage and new dangers of this higher stage

13. The concreteness of the slogan of insurrection................

6.

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PREFACE/**

1) Dispute concerning the provisional revolutionary government. Connection of the question a) with the Constituent Assembly and b) with the insurrection
[The Bund and spontaneous origins.]

Is it permissible or impermissible? If yes, under what conditions?

? Iskra. The exact answer in the resolution of the 3rd Congress. Nothing against it.

2) Theses or conclusions in No. 3 of Proletariat 1—5.

3) Ad 1st thesis. Nothing from Plekhanov. Martynov only on Federalism. 4 Evasion

4) Ad 2nd thesis.
Plekhanov's evasion

5) Ad 3rd thesis. Plekhanov—evasion. Contra Zarya No. 1 and Iskra 74.

6) Ad 4th thesis
Connection with the question of insurrection. Plekhanov's evasion

7) Ad 5th thesis.
1848—1789.

1 The reference is to the "conclusions (theses) formulated by Lenin at the end of his article "On the Provisional Revolutionary Government" in No. 3 of Proletariat of June 9 (May 27), 1905. (Works, vol. VII, pp. 328—329).

2 No. 97 of Iskra is erroneously indicated instead of No. 96 of April 18(5), where Plekhanov's article "On the Question of the Seizure of Power" was published (see Works of G. V. Plekhanov, vol. XIII).

3 This refers to the letter written by Engels to Turati in 1894, to which Plekhanov referred in his polemic with Lenin. In the article "On the Provisional Revolutionary Government" (Works, VII, p. 322) Lenin wrote: "...unfortunately, Plekhanov does not cite the letter in full." This is presumably what was meant in the brief note "1894. Omissions."

4 This refers to A. Martynov's article "In the Struggle with Marxist Conscience" in No. 103 of Iskra of July 4 (June 21), 1905.

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**NOTEBOOK OF NOTES AND MATERIALS FOR ARTICLES
(EXTRACTS FROM NEWSPAPERS} PLANS, THESES AND SKETCHES OF ARTICLES)**

END OF SEPTEMBER — BEGINNING OF OCTOBER 1905. GENEVA.

At the end of September and beginning of October Lenin kept notes of materials for articles, plans and sketches of articles in a large-format notebook. Part of the notebook was published in Lenin Collected Works V; thus on the fourth and fifth pages of the notebook are recorded: "Draft of an Agrarian Programme" and "Socialism and the Peasantry" (see Lenin Collected Works V, pp. 390—394); on the sixth— "The Zemstvo Congress" (pp. 318—380); on the fifteenth— "The Bourgeoisie That Has Fallen and the Bourgeoisie That Has Awakened" (pp. 410—411; Works, vol. VIII, p. 283); on the last seven pages, numbered by Lenin a1—a7, is recorded the article "No Falsehood! Our Strength Is in the Statement of Truth! (letter to the editorial board)" (Lenin Collected Works V, pp. 381—385; Works, vol. VIII, pp. 241—244).

Below are published the remaining materials of this notebook in sequential order, with the exception of the plan of the article "Political Strike and Street Fighting in Moscow," written before the document "A Conversation of a Liberationist with a Social Democrat" (p. 199), which is included in the group of documents under the general heading "For the Article 'Political Strike and Street Fighting in Moscow'" (p. 204).

a.

THE 18TH OF BRUMAIRE.

"The 18th of Brumaire"... [Russian translation No. 46 Library of Russian Proletariat]1

b.

3. in f.* in France the class struggle.... was brought to a decisive conclusion.... 2

* in finem—at the end. Ed.